European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday february 10, 1994 re at a glance the Senate foreign relations com Mittee has approved Strobe Tal Bott s nomination to be Deputy Secretary of state. See Story on Page 5. Army refining moves the . Army Europe is working on ways to get soldiers in and out of their units faster and less painfully. Page 4 North fought report Senate hopeful Oliver North tried to Block Public release of the Iran Contra prosecutor s report sources say but his objections have been re moved from court files. Page 6 a tests defended Early radiation experiments con ducted on humans at veterans hospitals posed no Long term health threats doctors say. Page hanging endorsed a Federal appeals court in san Francisco has ruled that hanging is constitutional. Page 8 Iraq sales studied the Clinton administration is giving a House committee full Access to classified documents about the Arm ing of Iraq before the persian Gulf War. Page 9 irs settles suit the internal Revenue service is paying $500,000 to a lawyer to Settle a lawsuit claiming that agents persecuted him. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 24-27 comics. 21-23 commentary 17 crossword 21 faces n places. 20 Horoscope 26 Jumble 26 letters 16 Money matters 14 sports 29-36 to listings .7. 35 weather 15 sex Clinton firm reportedly shredded Whitewater data Washington a the Rose Law firm where Hillary Rodham Clinton was a partner shredded documents last wee relating to Whitewater development corp., a newspaper reported wednesday. The Washington times cited As its source an unidentified Rose employee. President Clinton and the first lady along with James b. Mcdougal and his then wife Susan were partners in White water an Arkansas real estate venture. In Little Rock ark., Ronald m. Clark managing partner of the Rose firm wednesday called the report totally  asked whether any documents re lated to Whitewater were shredded Clark said absolutely not. To my knowledge we have no documents in the firm s Possession related to Whitewater and if we do we Are accumulating themis a single location awaiting the appropriate time that they will be  special counsel Robert b. Fiske jr., appointed Jan. 20 by attorney general Janet Reno is looking into among other things whether Mcdougal improperly diverted funds from the mad Ison guaranty savings & loan association which he controlled to Whitewater 1 and Clinton gubernatorial campaigns. The times said it was not Clear whether the reported shredding would violate state or Federal Laws. Associate attorney general Webster. Hubbell and the late White House Deputy counsel Vincent w. Foster Jalso were partners in the Little Rock Law firm with Hillary Clinton before moving to Washington to serve in the Clinton administration. Foster committed suicide last summer and the White House has acknowledged that papers relating to Whitewater another matters were taken from his White House office after his death and turn Dover to the Clinton personal lawyer in Washington before they could be exam ined by officials investigating his death. There s absolutely no doubt that the records destroyed last thursday were those the firm had on Whitewater the times quoted the Rose employee As say ing. There were a lot of papers and the process took quite a Long time. A Bunch of the stuff was there to be read and it was Felt that this could Bevery bad the paper quoted the employ teas saying. It reported that a second Rose employee who took part in a shredding would not talk about it but declined to say the incident had not occurred. I m not going to comment the paper quoted the second employee As  m not going to say anything about what happened. I would just prefer not to say anything about this at  but the times said the employee who declined to discuss the matter had confided to friends that the shredding had taken place and that he was scared to death about it. Nato from Page 1 Evangelos Venizelos said that Greece which traditionally has been sympathetic toward the serbs would t oppose a decision to carry out nato air strikes. Britain s stance remained unclear. I London a spokesman for prime minister John major said on condition of Anonym Ity that when Britain s final position emerges it Likely will have the support fall 16 nato members an indication Britain will go along with air  has the most peacekeepers in Bosnia after  discussions at nato Headquarters come five Days after a mortar attack on Sarajevo s Central Market killed 68 people and wounded about 200.the attack horrified the world and highlighted Western inability to take forceful stance against the carnage. Any air strikes would be the first Offen Sive military action by the Alliance in its 44-year , while not a nato member has longstanding ties with the serbs an opposes air strikes against them. In Sarajevo in addition to the ser agreement to withdraw its artillery bos Nian serbs and the Muslim led govern ment agreed wednesday to a cease fire to begin today said  cease fires in the past have been ignored. The latest Allied discussions also touch on How extensive any bombing runs should be and possible tar gets such As artillery positions command and control communications facilities and communications lines. An a-10 takes off for training wednesday from Aviano a Italy whose pilots have been placed on a higher Alert in the Wake of saturday s bloody attack on a Sarajevo Market. The Alliance May use some 70 warplanes from France the Netherlands Turkey Britain and the United  at Southern european air bases they now enforce a no Fly zone Over bos Nia. The French defense ministry said wednesday that the aircraft Carrier Foch now in Toulon has been put on Alert to steam to the Adriatic sea if needed to As Sist nato allies. Radovan Karadzic the bosnian ser Leader warned against any air strikes. We will shoot Down every plane Pecan if attacked he said. In Case of an attack we cannot guar Antee safety to any foreigner who find himself on our  drug from Page 1 $1 billion the first increase in anti drug spending in two years. It also represents a departure from the drug fighting philosophy of the Bush administration. The plan increases spending for prevention and treatment by $826.5 million or 18.2 percent to $5.4 billion. Clinton said the plan seeks to put140,000 More hard Core drug users into drug treatment in the next year. Drug treatment reduces criminality it s just that simple vice president Al Gore said. He added that treatment programs Are producing tremendous Success in an area that used to be fraught with hopelessness and  this is a realistic balanced approach to dealing with the drug problem said Lee Brown the administration s director of the drug control policy. And despite Tough fiscal times it is backed by the funds required to put it into action. It is the most comprehensive strategy  the plan immediately Drew criticism from some in Congress. Sen. Phil Gramm a Texas said i would serve As a Welcome mat for drug  5 not surprisingly it reflects a Funda mental View of most democrats that when things go wrong society is to blame and More social programs Are the answer Gramm said in a statement. Once it occurs drug addiction has Tobe overcome one person at a time Clin ton said referring a second time to the problems in his own family. We re not going to make a Dent in this problem except by having it happen one person at a  Clinton said his strategy was direct Dat the most tenacious and damaging aspect of America s drug use problem chronic hard Core drug use and the Vio Lence it  he added that an aggressive role Forlaw enforcement must be maintained. To put the strategy into action Clinto will ask Congress to set aside Money to put 100,000 new police officers on the streets for Safe schools proposals and for treatment of imprisoned addicts